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Originally Posted by michelle2677
I use "n*gga" all the time. (which oddly enough I think is different than "N*gger".) But it is only used like you said "n*gga please" ....but I use cracka and honkey too..so...  
My father is very racist. They are divorced and in the 8th grade my best friend was black and she was not even allowed to come over  My mother on the other hand-brought me up right and thankfully for her I see people for who they are, not the color of their skin. |
Do you use that term around black people?
If so, how do they react?
My dad is pretty racist. Which I find both sad and amusing since he is an immigrant.
I like to point that out to him "hey dad, don't forget, you're a minority too!" He doesn't necessarily
hate based on skin color, but he does
judge.
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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna
They've let up in the last few years- but for older generations I guess it's hard to let go of the old notions....thankfully they did NOT pass down any racial prejudices to their kids - and therefore me and my cousins didn't get any passed down to us  |
My niece is dating a black guy right now. She refuses to tell her dad, even though everyone else in the fam knows & doesn't have issues with it. Well, I'm sure some of them have issues, but nobody's disowning her or anything. It makes me sad that people my age (and by my age, I guess I mean 40 & younger...) have race issues.
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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
The Mexican guys are angry at those who hold power in America (the whites), the ones who have the biggest houses and the biggest cars (the whites), and the regime that wants to criminalize them. Unfortunately you happened to be a whipping post for some of their frustration. I'm not saying it was acceptable or appropriate... only understandable. |
Personally, I agree with you that no term is
that derogatory towards whites. The worst I've been called is a "white bitch." Was I a little upset? Of course. But I can deal with 1 or 2 isolated incidents.
BUT - your last observation seems to say "well, it wasn't cool but I can see why they wanted to beat the sh*t out of you." I have a problem with this, because if that's the case it could be applied to all situations. Like, if black people robbed my house it would be understandable for me to hate all blacks & call them n*ggers? A lot of people defend their views with stuff like this - "well, this happened to me, so it's OK." And I don't think it is.
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Originally Posted by markolas
I've never heard that. Members of my family used the "n" word quite liberally, and it was clear to me that it applied to all black people.
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Exactly. The people I know that say that word (which I honest to God cannot bring myself to utter, even in a discussion like this) say it to demean. They aren't saying "you're a poor uneducated black person." They're saying "you are an inferior human being." They're saying "I am better than you and you are beneath me simply because I am white." I know what the word itself actually means, but that's not how it's most often used.